Rant number 296
I'm sure I've mentioned it before - but every morning I have a bit of a ceremony I like to work through.
Before I get dressed - I like to watch the news, the weather and the traffic news - not because it is ever useful - but because it sometimes feels better to know what battle I'm likely to face.
Now, the M62 between junction 24 and junction 27 (which just happens to be my route from home to work every bloody day) has been one of the most notoriously busy and congested strips of the motorway network for many a year.
To try and improve matters - they are 'installing managed motorways.' This means they are going to pump the area full of speed cameras that work on a variable speed limit for rush hour.
It doesn't sound great - but I'll take it if it fixes things.
The issue is at the moment, it just makes things much worse.
Because they are faffing around (and have been for over a year now!) with the hard shoulder - they've put up some giant steel barriers between the shoulder and the rest of the motorway.
All very well that is - until something goes wrong with someones car.
Over the last month or so - there has been a huge increase in broken down vehicles (I saw around 6 of the buggers today!) and because there is no hard shoulder for them to refuge to - a minor issue has become a massive one. In rush hour - 3 lanes are an absolutely must and having a car or lorry broken down in one of them is enough to bring the whole traffic network down!
It's bloody irritating it is.
I don't blame the people who break down (unless they've bought a fiat - like the guy I saw today,) unless they've just not maintained their car properly. I blame the stupid slow bastards who insist on taking forever in the roadworks. I swear that I have seen no less than 20 people actually fucking working in the last year in all these roadworks.
I mean - what are they doing?
Anyway, stop breaking down people - its very inconvenient!
Rant over.
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